The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 with one half to Arthur Ashkin, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Anders Irbäck will talk about Optical tweezers
Claes-Göran Wahlström will talk about chirped pulse amplification, CPA,